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B.A. Psychology
The B.A. in Psychology allows you to choose either a counseling/clinical track or an experimental/physiological track. Both tracks will expose you to diverse areas of psychology including developmental, cognitive, physiological, social and clinical. With your degree in psychology, you may pursue a wide variety of career options such as administration/ management, business/ industry, casework, childcare, human resources, employment services and healthcare. Additionally, there are positions in market research, probation and parole, psychiatric assisting, sales, and technical writing. Graduates have been employed by university labs, mental health centers, and youth centers.
B.S. Psychology
The B.S. in Psychology is designed to prepare you for graduate school to earn an advanced degree. With an advanced degree, you may pursue a career in such areas as clinical or counseling psychology, school psychology, sports psychology, legal psychology, or in academic positions such as a professor, administrator or researcher. Recent graduates have been accepted to graduate programs at Indiana University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, California University, Bucknell University, Binghamton University, Old Dominion University, Millersville University, Marywood University and the University of South Carolina.
Internships/Study Abroad
Credit-bearing internships provide hands-on experience in real-life situations. Past interns have worked in mental health facilities, schools, prisons, day care centers, women's shelters, hospitals and government. Students have also studied abroad in Ireland, England, China and Australia.
Faculty
All psychology professors hold Ph.D. degrees. They have extensive college teaching experience and expertise in a broad spectrum of specialties in the field. Small classes are taught by professors, not graduate assistants, who will give you all the help you need to succeed. Our faculty collaborate with students to conduct research. Recent topics include sleep and the immune system, multitasking, perfectionism, and the acquisition of number concepts in squirrel monkeys. In addition, each year the faculty accompany students to the Eastern Psychological Association conference.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Christine Offutt, Chair,
LHU Psychology Department
(570) 484-2400 coffutt@lhup.edu
Facilities
The psychology department boasts the latest equipment including a computer lab for psychological research, classrooms equipped with SmartBoards that interface with computers and the Internet, online journals at the library, eight enclosed research cubicles, a colony of squirrel monkeys for cognitive research, and a neuroscience laboratory.
Internships/Study Abroad
Credit-bearing internships provide hands-on experience in real-life situations. Past interns have worked in mental health facilities, schools, prisons, day care centers, women's shelters, hospitals and government. Students have also studied abroad in Ireland, England, China and Australia.
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"Thank you for showing
such passion for the subject matter in our courses. I came to LHU thinking I would get my Bachelor's degree and then be done with schooling. But, your positive attitudes have without a doubt given me the motivation to pursue an even higher level of education.”
Kimberly Kaub
“The great thing about the psychology department is that it doesn't matter
whether you have a question about an assignment or just need a mentor to talk with, each member of the faculty has an open door policy. If
the door is open, just knock and go right in. This allows students to get to know who their professors really are and gives the personal one-on-one interaction that
a small university should provide for its students.”
Matt Bitten
“Teaching psychology at LHU has given me the opportunity to enlighten students about how relevant psychology is to everyone's life. I see psychology as an invaluable tool for personal growth and feel fortunate to be in this position to share my knowledge.”
Dr. Kevin Morrin
“I have been teaching for over 20 years and I continue to get a thrill when sharing new knowledge. Our emphasis on having smaller class sizes has allowed me to learn every
student's name.
I enjoy using that personal connection and my experiences to explore with students the many exciting findings that science has revealed about the human mind.”
Dr. Mark Cloud
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